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Hello_Madam_PresidentHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:17am
I am going to assume a lot of millennials cannot afford to have a piece of GAP clothing that will fall apart in a few months, but can afford a piece of Walmart clothing that will fall apart in a few months. Maybe GAP’s fashion choices are partly to blame (although it used to be great for basics), but GAP’s quality is the same as Old Navy and their prices are quite a bit higher. No-brainer.
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  FlazloHello_Madam_President
  6/16/15 10:22am
  Absolutely - and, at this point, does the Gap really have enough cache left to justify the added cost?
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  Hello_Madam_PresidentFlazlo
  6/16/15 10:26am
  Yeah who knows - I hear Banana Republic has kind of gone the same direction, although I’ve never shopped at one. I am on the older side of millennial and I can afford halfway decent clothes (I mean, not extremely expensive ones but I can shop for quality these days) and I won’t touch Gap at all, even though I’d totally buy some jeans and basic camisols and stuff from them if they were worth a shit. I mean if the hems start coming out of a shirt on the first wash....
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Richard BlakeleyHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:14am
Millennials Too ~~Cool~~ Poor for Gap but ~~Love~~ Can Still Afford Walmart
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  thafaxRichard Blakeley
  6/16/15 10:18am
  That's it exactly. Their stuff is far too expensive, especially considering the quality.
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  breakfastattiffanysgirlRichard Blakeley
  6/16/15 10:19am
  Literally my first thought on seeing the title of this article.
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Jennifer C. MartinHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:10am
What’s more unique than Wal-Mart? I’ve always wanted 5000 Looney Tunes shirts with quippy sayings on them.

seriously though going to the mall sucks! I’m so glad they’re dying out.
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  BaggyTrousers3Jennifer C. Martin
  6/16/15 10:24am
  I’ve been to a mall a few times recently and, man, you are so right. We used to spend hours there as teens but now... fuck. I had to go to get some work done on my laptop. A bunch of people zombie-walking all over the place, the noise, the same ass stores at each one. And the fucking smell of Auntie Anne’s pretzels or Cinnabun permeating EVERYTHING.
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  Kenhe LoginJennifer C. Martin
  6/16/15 10:31am
  
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Cam/ronHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:13am
But, but the Gap had that ad where the youngsters were swing dancing like it was the bees knees! It had Matrix Vision! Now where’s my metamucil?

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  selmabouvierterwilligerhutzmcclureCam/ron
  6/16/15 10:20am
  I loved these ads. I miss the ‘90s.
  
  I also still wear Gap, but I am an uncool GenXer with two babies and a Prius.
  
  Also, Pearl Jam forever!
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  SniffyCam/ron
  6/16/15 10:22am
  technically its lindy hop, but whatever. look at those horrible boring tan khakis.
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WhatthefoxsaysHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:16am
I haven’t set foot in a GAP or Banana Republic in years. I don’t know anyone in Manhattan who shops there. Is it just the tourists?
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  SlickWillieWhatthefoxsays
  6/16/15 10:25am
  The only dress shirts I can wear are the BR slim shit stretch shirts. I don’t know what I’ll do when they finally stop making them
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  AddictedtospudsSlickWillie
  6/16/15 10:41am
  I’m in the same boat. As an old Gen Xer (born in 1968) that lives in and is finally successful enough to buy real estate in Manhattan - it only took 20 years of saving, I shop at BR because their dress shirts are the only ones that fit me correctly.
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MuscatoHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:25am
Back in the old days, children, the point of the Gap was simple, well-made clothes with reasonable fit in a range of sizes for less than department stores (because that’s where lots of us used to shop). You chose between, say, khakis and an Oxford cloth shirt from B. Altman or Brooks Brothers, whether you could afford maybe one or two a year, or going to the Gap, where you got maybe some pants, two ro three shirts, and oh, while I’m here, that nice tee in a couple of colors, a cap, and maybe sunglasses. You didn’t get surprises, but you had some nice basics that could take you through your school or entry-level job to un-dressy parties, etc.

Now the clothes are all over the place (but rarely both attractive and simple), don’t last particularly well, and seem to be fitted, at least for men, to people who are both well over six feet tall and likely suffering from an eating disorder.
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  Darth RabbitMuscato
  6/16/15 11:01am
  The last sentence is perfect sums up my frustration with men’s clothing sizes, especially at the Gap.
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  mossdaleMuscato
  6/16/15 11:17am
  When I was a kid in the 70s the Gap was where we went for levis (501 shrink to fit), cords and maybe a nice terry cloth shirt. It was a step up from sears toughskins.
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KREET-NHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:38am
which one am I, gen-x or millennial? born 1980...I’m a middle child stuck between two herds of humans (notice I didn’t say idiots) [because labeling huge groups of unidentifiable people based on age is pretty dumb]...here’s what I had to say about walmart in 2013 if any of you care:

http://kreet-n.blogspot.com/2013/11/walmar…
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  Annie from the Grog BoothKREET-N
  6/16/15 11:29am
  Literally nobody cares.
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  KREET-NAnnie from the Grog Booth
  6/16/15 12:01pm
  you don’t think i know that already?...come over here and give me a hug...
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Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:10am
Boring person clothing store THE GAP

Uh oh
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  SlickWillieSean Brody
  6/16/15 10:23am
  Yeah, I’m pretty fucking boring and I haven’t shopped at the Gap since maybe 7th grade
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  Hello_Madam_PresidentSlickWillie
  6/16/15 10:27am
  #notallboringpeople
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Rom RombertsHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:22am
Millennials include all humanoids born within two spasms of the Central Engorgement of the Milky Way’s Third Ambitriol Cluster, otherwise known as Miranda’s Cusp. For thousands of years, they have rampaged, ransacked, bled, bred, and burrowed deep into the spiral galaxy’s most infected arm. Now, as the sun begins to set on what has been, by all accounts, a massively destructive reign of terror, the other civilizations of the galaxy look to Miranda’s Cusp and pray to their oddly shaped deities that the Millennial Scourge does not spill past the Great Trough of Timmulkin and gain access to the vast network of stars and gaseous filaments that connect the throbbing mass of life and energy that is the Milky Way.

In other news, Perseii V is proud to announce that it has successfully converted every square inch of the planet’s surface into the galaxy’s largest Wal-Mart, where savings are king and a giant bug looking thing with dread locks is queen.
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  mymiddlenameisduaneRom Romberts
  6/16/15 10:55am
  How embarrassed should I be that I googled both “Miranda’s Cusp” and “great trough of timmulkin?”
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imakeokaybeansHamilton Nolan
6/16/15 10:30am
Anyone else think they designed all their jeans for women who were 5’11” and above (I am of middling height for a woman)? The inseams were a mile long and even pants billed as low rise would sit higher on my hips, pretty darn close to my natural waist.
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  Victorious R.B.G.imakeokaybeans
  6/16/15 11:05am
  Really? I’m 6’ and I even find their “tall” pants to be terribly short, especially in the waist. And their 34” inseams actually only measure 30.5” when stretched. If I wanted high waters, I’d hem them myself or wear my clothes from middle school!
  
  Whatever they’re doing just isn’t working for anyone, it seams.
  
  ETA: typo being left in for unintentional pun fun
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  PlantinMoretusimakeokaybeans
  6/16/15 11:08am
  As a 5’10” woman, I love GAP jeans! And pants! If it weren’t for GAP I’d have to go online for pants.
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